Games like Gone Home on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: What Remains of Edith Finch (★ 4.4). Quickest to finish: Kentucky Route Zero at about 2 hours.
These 15 games score highest on our similarity model for Gone Home — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: Walking Simulator, Mystery and Exploration.
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64%
1. What Remains of Edith Finch
Shares Walking Simulator, Short, Mystery, Female Protagonist and Exploration and 5 more tags; rated 0.7 higher.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 89
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 95%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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61%
2. Among the Sleep
Shares Walking Simulator, Short, Exploration, First-Person and Full controller support and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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60%
3. Kentucky Route Zero
Shares Interactive Fiction, Mystery, Point & Click, Exploration and Great Soundtrack and 2 more tags.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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60%
4. Last Day of June
Shares Romance, Walking Simulator, Point & Click, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 2 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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59%
5. In Between
Shares Walking Simulator, Exploration, First-Person, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 2 more tags; rated 1.2 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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59%
6. Goetia
Shares Mystery, Point & Click, Female Protagonist, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 1.1 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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59%
7. Shadowgate
Shares Point & Click, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 65
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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59%
8. Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
Shares Interactive Fiction, Walking Simulator, Mystery, Point & Click and Female Protagonist and 3 more tags.
- Year
- 2023
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 91%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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58%
9. Submerged
Shares Walking Simulator, Mystery, Female Protagonist, Exploration and Full controller support and 2 more tags; rated 0.5 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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58%
10. Firewatch
Shares Interactive Fiction, Walking Simulator, Short, Mystery and Exploration and 1 more tags; rated 0.6 higher.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 93%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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58%
11. The First Tree
Shares Walking Simulator, Short, Exploration, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 2 more tags; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 69%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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58%
12. The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Shares Point & Click, Great Soundtrack, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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57%
13. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Shares Walking Simulator, Short, Mystery, Point & Click and Exploration and 5 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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56%
14. Thomas Was Alone
Shares Narration, Short, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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55%
15. Oxenfree
Shares Walking Simulator, Captions available, Short, Mystery and Female Protagonist and 4 more tags.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 83%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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What is the best game like Gone Home on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, What Remains of Edith Finch is the closest match to Gone Home on Nintendo Switch — shares Walking Simulator, Short, Mystery, Female Protagonist and Exploration and 5 more tags; rated 0.7 higher.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Gone Home on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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